“Our team are currently investigating an issue affecting Game Pass players and are working to resolve it as soon as possible. We'll update you as soon as we can.”

Weighing in at a whopping 18GB, the new Sea of Thieves update aims to improve the stability of the game experience.

"We are also releasing a new game client to all players on Tuesday March 27 which contains a wide array of fixes across our services, stability and game experience," Rare explained.

"This is a full game update as opposed to just a patch. If we'd wanted it to be a smaller client update we would have had to delay by a number of days, and felt the priority here was releasing the improvements to our player base.

"For our next client update, we plan to be a much smaller patch size."